I won’t stop you as it has some geological formations that are really nice, but the priests of that church declared against my family in the very long trial they had to endure in the 18thC – and we hold very long grudges…

Morata de Jiloca.

It’s not as rich as most churches in the villages of this county, so it wasn’t included in the UNESCO declaration of the “Mudéjar aragonés” style as World Heritage.

You can find Magellan sailing under a Castilian banner, a Navarrese like Saint Francis Xavier preaching in the Portuguese colonies of the Indian Ocean, Aragonese as part of Catalan companies in the Mediterranean… We tend to project the hard borders of the 19th C into the Early Modern empires.

I think you’re right with that suspicion, as the borders were fuzzy not just in terms of language: there’s this presentist idea of thinking about troops and crews as perfectly matching the origin of the banner under which they’re fighting/sailing, which is sth that contradicts any account.

But I still have it: “It’s a quite literal “God is in the details” situation: they’re not there for us humans to see, only for God – Gaudí was an extremely devout Catholic, so they’ve tried to keep his rigour all over the basilica.”

Sorry! I deleted the post because I saw I’ve written ‘not’ twice and it didn’t make sense, haha.

That would be an excellent solution: it’s geographically precise, but as ambiguous as it should be with these bunch of languages that are part of a continuum with very fuzzy inner borders.

You might find that for many words it’s the only language with an identical form, and yet it’s *always* credited to other languages – as if we haven’t been out in the world since at least Benjamin of Tudela.

Haha, I didn’t mean it like that! I am really interested in finding one because it’s weird that, somehow, Occam’s razor doesn’t apply to Aragonese.

Bird Test: I challenge you to find a dictionary admitting that their language had any borrowing from Aragonese.

It might be, but it’s not like there’s any dictionary in any language admitting a borrowing from Aragonese – even in places where the only foreign community happened to be Aragonese-speaking.

A close-up of the vaults of the Sagrada Família for #MosaicMonday

Thanks for the suggestion, I’ll repost them now!

I wonder when the word entered the region, considering that Aragonese Jews formed the biggest Romance-speaking community in many cities in the East of the Ottoman Empire – like Istanbul or Salonica –, and the Tagarenos – Aragonese-speaking Moriscos – the same but in the West of the empire.

Identical to Aragonese ‘banyo’!

It was! What a pity that the details in these vaults will only be seen again by future restorers – being more than 40m above the ground, it’s impossible to appreciate the craftsmanship that went into making them.

Not for the faint-hearted.